Re: newline or no newline at end of capture: expected behavior

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

... but i want to know what is expected.  it sopunds like org is
intended to produce the desired result regardless.  so i will messa
aroud more with my settings.

i am limited in comput3er use so it might take a while for me to
produce anything liek an mwe.  but i will check a few things.

On 9/27/20, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi nicolas,
>
> thanks, that helps to know that org adds a newline.  this prevents the
> failure mode of corrupted headers.
>
> just to confirm, do you mean capture /templates/ [potentially
> verifiable by org] vs. /finalized buffers/?
>
> it sounds like you mean templates, because otherwise org just does
> whatever is necessary to create desired lines?
>
> the user can mess with the buffer, so might leave a trailing newline
> or not.  might copy from a file that ensures trailing newline, or one
> that does not, etc.
>
> thus finalized buffers can contain anything.  or nothing.
>
> at present, possibly due to my own errors, without the options
> specified explicitly, i get blank lines below the header if i finalize
> the buffer with a trailing newline, and blank lines below the target
> header if i capture with an empty buffer.  in maint.
>
>
> On 9/27/20, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> thank you.  when i can, i will try explicitly setting all three to 0
>>> to see if that prevents the unwanted newlines, in the buffer with
>>> newline on last line, and empty buffer, cases.
>>>
>>> the docstring says empty-lines defaults to 0, which is what i want.
>>> it does not say what the default for after and before are.
>>>
>>> it /sounds/ like capture is supposed to produce the desired number
>>> [and position] of empty lines regardless of whether the buffer is
>>> empty or there is or is not a trailing newline on the final line of
>>> hte buffer.  is this more or less correct?
>>
>> I didn't read the whole thread, but a final newline is mandatory in all
>> capture templates, independently on the number of desired blank lines.
>> If such final newline is not provided, the capture mechanism will add
>> one.
>>
>> The only exception is about empty capture templates, which are left
>> as-is, i.e. a "final newline" is not added in that case.
>>
>> I don't know if that answers your question, but HTH.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Nicolas Goaziou
>>
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